Call me a "dirty negro" and shit out Italian shoe leather!

Folks love to claim that America is just too PC for it's own good. I have no problemo with political correctness (ha, problemo) and here's why. It protects a whole lot of folks from getting their asses stomped into the ground.

Perhaps Italy could learn that lesson. Apparently, Italy's highest court held that calling someone a "dirty negro" isn't racist. Hmmm . . . was Tony Soprano the judge? More specifically, the court said somethin like this:

"[A]n insult should be judged racist 'only if it is motivated by real hatred,' or is likely to cause racial hatred in others or lead to 'discriminatory behavior for reasons of race, ethnicity, nationality or religion . . . '

"On the other hand, the crime of racism is not constituted by expressions of "generic dislike, intolerance or rejection based on race, ethnicity or religion," which appeared to fit the case in question."

So, when a man calls a woman a "dirty negro," then beat the shit out of her, that's not a hate crime in Italy. That's amore!

What's even more scary is that American courts use that stupid "discriminatory intent" argument in civil rights cases all the time. Dammit, those I-talians learned it from watching us!

Here's what they didn't learn. In America, a white person calling a black person a "dirty negro" or any other incarnation of the N-word might not be illegal, but it can be lethal as it may guarantee a gang-style ass-whoopin. I'm a foxxxy luv-a, not a fighter, but I would even take off my earrings and smear some vaseline on my face to put my Italian leather, Italy shaped boot up someone's ass.

So, white Americans, think of political correctness as protection rather than restriction.